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AJMER: GM Sahaj Grover has become Indian National Junior Chess Champion by beating overnight sole leader Debashish Das of Orissa. Grover scored 8.5 points in 11 rounds – half-a-point ahead of the field including N Srinath, Vidit Gujarathi, Debashish Das, Anurag Mahamal, Dipptayan Ghosh and GA Stany in joint second place. Grover lost one game, won seven and drew the remaining three. He lost to IM Aditya Udeshi. “This has been a decent result after I was going haywire midway through the tournament, even before the last round I was not sure if would win the championship despite winning the last round, it was possible only thanks to some positive results for me on other boards,” said Grover after winning the title.
“The way I had been playing before the last round I was not convinced with myself, but then I had analysed this line for some time and when Debashish (Das) went for it, I knew it would be at least a keen tussle. And then it just went my way,” he added.
A former under-10 world champion, Grover is also a bronze medallist in the 2011 world junior championship. Grover had only recently earned the GM title at the World Junior chess championship in Athens, Greece.
